I was reimplementing the Uniswap v2 contracts and I just could not figure this out.
https://github.com/Uniswap/v2-core/blob/master/contracts/UniswapV2Pair.sol
So, from what I understand :
If a pair exchange / liquidity pool doesn't exist upon adding liquidity, the UniswapFactory.sol creates a new LP pool contract.
This pool contract UniswapV2pair.sol itself is an ERC20 contract. However, I have some questions about the UniswapV2ERC20 contract it inherits from.
https://github.com/Uniswap/v2-core/blob/master/contracts/UniswapV2ERC20.sol
It seems like the name and symbol are hard coded into the contract with
string public constant name = "Uniswap V2;
string public constant symbol = 'UNI-V2';
, so when "name" is called from a frontend to the liquidity pool contract, it will always return the string" Uniswap V2" , regardless of what the underlying LP token is (like DAI- ETH, USDC-ETH.. etc).
Is my understanding of this correct? I know the functionality should be fine regardless as all these Pair Liquidity pool contracts are deployed as separate contracts but it seemed a little odd to me that the name and symbol couldn't just be set as something like "DAI-ETH LP" in the constructor rather than all as the same "uniswap v2".
Thanks
You're reading the code correctly. Uniswap has decided to set the same name for all LP token contracts (i.e. pair contracts).
This approach puts more emphasis on the actual pair token addresses, rather than names.
If a pair name contained the token names, a dishonest author could create a custom token named USDT, a Uniswap pair named "ETH-USDT LP", and lure users who won't check the token address into selling their ETH for an otherwise worthless token (instead of the "real" USDT).
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In contracts I often come along hardcoded constant address such as WETH:
address internal constant WETH = 0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2
I am now curious, whats the difference between this style and the initialization by the constructor, e.g.:
address internal immutable WETH;
constructor(uint256 _WETH){
WETH = _WETH;
}
Especially, in terms of security and gas used during deployment and runtime.
In terms of gas and security there is not much of a difference in the two approaches. I verified this by writing two simple contracts on remix and using the debugger mode. If you closely look at the screenshots attached for the two approaches you will see the gas limit is almost equal (although the constructor approach has a little higher value but almost equal).
Now talking about why constructors could be used to initialize value, it is used when you want to deploy a contract from another contract or use a deployment script to publish a common code but with different values for some variables (The most common use case of constructors in programming in general - Make different objects of same class but with different configuration, that applies here as well)
First contract (hardcoded value):
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.7;
contract Debugging2 {
uint256 counter = 200;
}
Second contract (constructor initialization):
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.7;
contract Debugging {
uint256 counter;
constructor(uint256 _counter) {
counter = _counter;
}
}
Screenshot of first contract (hardcoded value) debugger :
Screenshot of second contract (constructor initialization) debugger :
Best Practice Advice:
Is it acceptable to override the totalSupply() of an ERCToken if you're using a different variable to hold some of the supply and not holding all the tokens in the totalSupply variable directly?
example:
...
uint _extraSupplyForGivingAway = 1e27; //decimal 1e18 * 1M just an example
function totalSupply() public view override returns(uint totalSupply){
totalSupply = super.totalSupply() + _extraSupplyForGivingAway);
return (totalSupply);
}
The total value of the contract is not only the _totalSupply, it's also the _totalSupply and the extra tokens.
Question: Does the community and/or exchanges find this acceptable or not?
There are two different issues here. One is, are you conforming to the EIP-20 (ERC-20) standard in a way that will be understood by the community-at-large? Another is, is this a reasonable implementation for your business logic?
The latter issue is out-of-scope here since you haven't really provided enough information. So I will address the first, which is what I believe you wanted to know.
The reason I spell this out is because you fixate on implementation details but ERC20 is an interface standard, so it doesn't by-and-large dictate how things ought to be implemented.
In the case of totalSupply, all the standard says is:
totalSupply
Returns the total token supply.
function totalSupply() public view returns (uint256)
If it's not clear what that means, the EIP does link to the OpenZeppelin contract as an example implementation, which has:
/**
* #dev Total number of tokens in existence
*/
function totalSupply() public view returns (uint256) {
return _totalSupply;
}
So as long as the total number of minted tokens is returned, you are fine. It doesn't matter if you internally have it computed as the sum of two other private variables. I do have some lingering doubts about your implementation from what you wrote, but as I said, that's out-of-scope :)
I hesitate to add this and possibly muddy the waters but.. "tokens in existence" is somewhat ambiguous. Sometimes people have their burn function do an actual transfer to the zero address (not just the event), effectively removing them from the circulating supply, and adjust the total supply accordingly. So their totalSupply will then return the number of tokens held only by non-zero addresses. Block explorers may or may not account for this. I would avoid doing this unless you absolutely know what you're doing.
I know what they are but I don't quite understand the raw fundamentals of how they're expressed, recorded, and sent on the blockchain.
If tokens are just smart contracts, then how do you send them exactly? How do those token transactions get recorded on the blockchain? What are the raw fundamentals of how a token is created from a smart contract?
Token balance of an address is recorded on the token contract. A token contract is considered a contract that meets all criteria required by the ERC-20 standard, such as implementing the specified interface and emitting events when required by the standard.
Balances are mostly stored in the form of a mapping where the key is the holder address, and the value is the amount of tokens they own, because it's convenient for most cases. However the standard does not specify and particular way so if it suits your needs, you can store the balances in an array, or any other way.
Token transfer is an interaction with the token contract transfer() function (standardized in ERC-20), which should perform validations (my example skips that for simplicity), update the local variables storing balances, and emit the (again standardized) Transfer event.
Offchain apps, such as Etherscan, can listen to these events and update their own database of token holders. This allows them to filter all tokens by an address in their own database and show them on the website. But again, this is not part of the blockchain data, it's an aggregated database built on top of blockchain.
Example: Address 0x123 owns 1 USDT and 2 DAI. The USDT balance is stored in the USDT contract, and the DAI balance is stored in the DAI contract. There's no global property of the 0x123 address keeping track of its tokens.
contract USDT {
// for the key `0x123`, the value is 1 (and decimals)
mapping (address => uint256) balances;
event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint256 amount);
function transfer(address to, uint256 amount) public {
balances[msg.sender] -= amount;
balances[to] += amount;
emit Transfer(msg.sender, to, amount);
}
}
contract DAI {
// for the key `0x123`, the value is 2 (and decimals)
mapping (address => uint256) balances;
}
For a full code example, see the OpenZeppelin implementation, and their docs related to this specific implementation. Just to clarify, OpenZeppelin is an organization that publishes open source code, but you can also build your own implementation of the standard or use another one, if that fits your use case.
I've read here that it is possible to mint 2^256 nfts in a single transaction. I've tried to achieve this by directly assigning _owners and _balances mappings but ofc these are private variables so i can't change them. I tried making an _mint() override but that also didn't work. How does this process work?
For simplification, let's do a 10k NFTs scenario.
It's not about invoking a single mint() function 10k times, rather than building your contract logic in a way that allows setting up a range of valid IDs.
Using the MFS part of IPFS, you can upload multiple files into a folder using the same directory ID and actual file names. Example:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<dir_id_abc>/1.json
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<dir_id_abc>/2.json
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<dir_id_abc>/3.json
etc...
These metadata files contain links to the images.
Your contract can then implement a custom function that shadows an authorized address as an owner of the NFT if both following conditions are met:
The ID is in a valid range (in our case 1-10k)
The NFT is not owned by anybody else (i.e. it's owned by the default address 0x0)
function _exists(uint256 tokenId) override internal view returns (bool) {
if (tokenId >= 1 && tokenId <= 10000) {
return true;
}
return super._exists(tokenId);
}
function ownerOf(uint256 tokenId) override public view returns (address) {
address owner = _owners[tokenId];
// The ID is in a valid range (in our case 1-10k)
// The NFT is not owned by anybody else (i.e. it's owned by the default address 0x0)
if (tokenId >= 1 && tokenId <= 10000 && owner == address(0x0)) {
// shadows an authorized address as an owner
return address(0x123);
}
return super.ownerOf(tokenId);
}
The tokenURI() function then validates the token existence (using the _exists() function) and returns the final URI concatenated from the base URI (https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<dir_id_abc>/), the ID, and the .json suffix.
Mind that this approach does not work on the OpenZeppelin implementation, as their _owners property is private and not readable from child contracts. But you can take this snippet as an inspiration for a custom implementation that allows simulating an arbitrary default owner of 10k (or even 2^256) tokens.
Tbh I don't know how that could be possible without paying ungodly amounts of gas. Why are you trying to mint that many tokens? Are you trying to get all the NFTs in a collection? If so, you'll have to pay the gas costs for every mint regardless.
I have contract, which use another contract, which receives a pair of tokens, and returns the best price by comparing several exchanges.
Problem is if such tokens pair is not on the contract exchanges list, the contract returns an error.
I need just something like this for solidity 0.4.24, for a view function (not send)
try{
// get return from contract A
}catch{
// get return from contract B
}
I found solution with abi.encodeWithSelector()